Would you rather sit next to a smoker, someone spitting a dip, or someone spitting sunflower seed shells?
what are they smoking? And are they going to pass it after they puff it? 
I’ll stand over there, thanks
There is no way to avoid participating in their activity.
Gross, but infrequent
Less gross, but constant.
On the whole, I’d pick the seeds as the least of the three evils, because I wouldn’t be as grossed out if I had to deal with the remains. (And perhaps I could solve the problem by politely handing them a container!) The smoker is definitely the worst.
This is, of course, the correct answer.
We were at The Ballpark in Arlington (Rangers…gah) and my buddy didn’t realize it was no smoking since it’s open air. This was several years ago, back before smoking in public was such a big deal.
The ushers gather him up after the people next to him on the other side complained.
Those people were spitting sunflower seeds all over the people in front of them.
I wasn’t smoking, spitting seeds or anything, but I called the usher on the seed spitters that narced my buddy off.
He was coming back down (he could smoke in the open air breezeway at the top of out level) just in time to hear them get chewed out for spitting on the other people who were oblivious to the seeds all over their back until I got the shit started.
All we needed was a tobacco spitter and we could have had the trifecta.
I’ll take the sunflower seeds.
When we were restoring a house a few years ago a neighbor came by to see the progress. We were showing him around and I saw that he was carrying a clear plastic water bottle about a third full of brownish liquid. I didn’t realize what it was until he brought it to his mouth to spit into it. I honestly nearly threw up, and I’m not an easily grossed-out person. I still shudder when I think about it. Carrying around your spit in a clear container! In public! The horror!
Still, better than smoking.
You were at a baseball game in Texas and there wasn’t anyone chewing tobacco? :dubious: I find that hard to believe, you must not have looked too hard.
Probably the smoker. I’m slightly biased as a smoker myself but I find it much less gross than people spitting anything.
Ha ha, you think that’s bad? Try being the only one out of your group of friends in college that did not dip. The vast majority of the common rooms in the house had a number of clear plastic water bottles with varying amount of dip spit in them that could be anywhere from one day to one month old. The best part however is when we would be sitting around playing a drinking game and they would have a brown bottle of beer in one hand, and a brown water bottle (from the spit) in another. Needless to say, once you’ve had a few drinks you tend to forget which one you’re drinking from and which one you’re spitting into, and I got the pleasure of seeing them take a huge swig from a spit bottle and proceed to turn very green and puke…sometimes right there…sometimes they made it to the bathroom. Just one more reason for me not to dip 
I don’t smoke (anymore), but I married a smoker, and I’m not too crazy about spit, so I guess I’ll have to go with smoker too.
Smoker. I was at a party where a guy was using an empty beer bottle as a spittoon. Naturally, somebody picked up and took a swig outa the wrong bottle.
Most of the chewers I know now don’t spit, and if they do they’re more self conscious about it than smokers or seeds, so I’d take that. Unless it’s RedMan, those guys spit gallons.
I wasn’t looking for any tobacco chewers at the time, none stuck out in my mind.